AMD's new Zen CPU will offer twice the performance of the FX 8350, able to compete against the i7 5960x

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Cobretti2 said:

vivster said:
So they're finally using silicon as base ingredient for the chips instead of potato?

lol that is what i was gonna say.

best part of the article was the guy who designed the athlon xp designed zen.

wtf was he doing in the last 15  years lol? did AMD think they bench the guy cause he reached an achievment and wanted a rookie to make something else?

He left AMD in 1999, then in 2008 he joined Apple (they bought the Co. he was working on) until 2012 when he came back to AMD until last year, when he left (after the design of Zen and its successor Zen+ was completed) to join Tesla.

 

OT. Bulldozer was also suposed to be great, and we know how it ended up being. And while AMD seems to be better at Marketing as of late, I'll wait until we get actual reviews to take conclusions.